Atmospheric extinction

I've been asked to calculate, assuming no curvature for the Earth, how far through the atmosphere one could see when stood at sea-level - as in, at what distance would the atmosphere become opaque, both to visible light and to radio waves.

I know that the major factors to look at will be Rayleigh scattering and the attenuation coefficient of the atmosphere.

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